Agent-Based Modelling: Parallel and Distributed Simulation of Product Development Team

Abstract

The successful collaboration of team members plays a crucial role in product development. Research of different teamwork factors may help understand the process, and computer simulation can be a suitable method of achieving this goal. This work aims to give an overview of agent-based modelling of product development teams and survey existing models that tackle this problem. Some tools and frameworks for agent-based modelling will be described with an emphasis on parallel and distributed architectures which are used to improve performance and enable very big and complex simulations.

Keywords

• agent-based models
• crowdsourcing
• distributed systems
• multi-agent models, parallel computing
• product development
• social innovation